INTERNATIONAL
Anonymous movement in London
protests on Guy Fawkes night
LONDON (AP) — Several hundred protesters wearing masks have
gathered outside the British Parliament to mark Guy Fawkes night.
The protesters Monday were
supporters of Anonymous, a loosely organized movement of cyber
rebels and activists.
Anonymous draws much of
its iconography from the story of
Fawkes, and the anti-hero’s ghostly
white mask is a staple of the online
movement’s demonstrations.
There were fireworks and bonfires throughout much of England
to mark the anniversary.
Syrian chaos deepens as rebels,
Palestinians fight each other
BEIRUT (AP) — New chaos engulfed Syria’s civil war Monday
as Palestinian supporters and opponents of the embattled regime
were swept up in intense fighting in
Damascus, while rival rebel groups
clashed over control of a Turkish
border crossing.
The rare infighting — accompanied by car bombs, airstrikes
and artillery shells that killed
or maimed dozens of people —
heightened fears that if Syrian
President Bashar Assad falls, the
disparate factions battling the regime will turn on each other.

Nation & World

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Supporters wearing Guy Fawkes masks
pause for the media to film and photograph them Monday as they take part in a
protest march along Whitehall in London.

Months of Nigerian floods kill
363, displace 2.1 million
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s
National Emergency Management
Agency says 363 people died over
months of flooding across the West
African nation and 2.1 million others were displaced.
The agency made the announcement Monday as Nigeria’s
annual rainy season is coming to
an end. The report covered July
through the end of October.
The agency said Adamawa
and Kogi state suffered the worst
casualties, with more than 18,000
people being injured.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Police helicopter refurbished
before crash, two officers killed

Sean Payton could be a coaching
free agent in 2013 after suspension

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta
police helicopter that crashed and
killed two officers on board had
been completely refurbished within
the last decade, and its pilot and
maintenance crew were confident it
was safe to fly, officials said Monday.
The 45-year-old chopper went
down on a busy city street late Saturday while the officers were searching for a 9-year-old boy who had
run away. The helicopter hit a power
line pole, and part of its landing gear
got tangled up in cables before the
rest of it plummeted to the street.
Post Sandy, manic Monday begins
for commuters in New York

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dismissing speculation that he might
be interested in Sean Payton, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
said he has “a lot of faith” in coach
Jason Garrett and has no idea if
the suspended New Orleans Saints
coach might be available next
season.
Payton was suspended for the
season by the NFL for his role in
the bounty scandal. The league
has taken issue with a clause in
the contract extension he agreed to
more than a year ago, which was
to have kept him in New Orleans
through 2015.

NEW YORK (AP) — Commuters streaming into New York City
on Monday endured long waits and
crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week
after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the
eastern third of the country, with
New York and New Jersey bearing
the brunt of the destruction.
Trains were so crowded Monday on the Long Island Rail Road
that many people missed their trains.
With PATH trains between New Jersey and Manhattan still out, lines
for the ferry in Jersey City quickly
stretched to several hundred people.

CURTIS COMPTON / The Associated Press

City of Atlanta Capt. Stacie Gibbs and
Major Vincent Moore embrace Sunday at
the crash site of a police helicopter that
killed two officers in Atlanta.

112-year-old U.S. apparel maker
in Pennsylvania to shut down

International Paper gives two reservoirs to LDWF in order to preserve

ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) — One
of the last U.S. apparel manufacturers of its kind is losing its shirt.
FesslerUSA had survived war
and depression, free trade and
foreign imports, producing millions of knitted garments from its
base in eastern Pennsylvania. Five
years ago, third-generation owner
Walter Meck and his family were
feeling so good about the company’s prospects they doubled capacity, moving into a former pencil factory outside the small town
of Orwigsburg.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — International Paper is giving the state two
reservoirs that are popular recreational sites near Bastrop, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries said Monday.
The Bussey Brake reservoir is
on a 2,600-acre site and the Wham
Brake reservoir on about 5,500 acres.
The company, which closed its
Bastrop mill in 2009, impounded
both areas in the 1950s. The donation
will preserve them for future generations, said IP Senior Vice President
Tommy Joseph.

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Professors from the University donated nearly
$8,000 to President Barack Obama and only $2,000 to
his competitor Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential
election.
Thirty-three professors and employees donated a total of $9,554 to the two presidential candidates.
The average donation was $308, and the largest donation came from English professor Benjamin Kahan,
who contributed $1,508 to Obama’s campaign.
On the Republican side, Frank Opelka, chief executive of the LSU Healthcare Network, donated $985.
Only three University employees donated to the
Romney campaign, but the average donation of $670 is
more than double the approximate average of $250 contributed to the Obama campaign.
Contact Kevin Thibodeaux at
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While presidential politics
have dominated national headlines, state and local issues are
also part of today’s ballot.
The mayoral election will decide whether Democratic MayorPresident Kip Holden will serve
four more years in ofﬁce, or if the
mayor-presidency will go to one
of the other three challengers.
Republican candidate MayorPresident Pro Tempore Mike
Walker is closest to upsetting the
past favorite, but two unafﬁliated
candidates are also running.
After fellow candidate Gordon Mese called for Walker to
bow out of the race at a mayoral
debate, Walker said he would never step out of a race he is winning.
Walker’s main idea is the
elimination of Baton Rouge
crime, and his plan to combat that
includes ﬁnancing a new police
academy and making crime-stopping a priority in the budget.
Mese is running on the platform of a closer-knit Baton Rouge.

He wants to keep graduates of the
local universities in the city.
Mese has a background in urban planning and believes Baton
Rouge’s basic infrastructure is the
root of the city’s problems.
His solutions include an overhaul of the Uniﬁed Development
Code that will reform city permits, utilities and street planning,
among other basic aspects of Baton Rouge life.
Attorney Steve Myers has run
in eight separate elections now,
winning one in 1996 for a seat
on the Democratic State Central
Committee.
Myers said he hates singleissue candidates. He boiled down
his ﬁscal policy, saying paying for
public safety and infrastructure
are the two main pillars of ﬁnancing Baton Rouge, and the rest is
bonus.
He introduced 40 more issues in his “Myers Message” series, with a three-part video on the
economy and one about development in downtown Baton Rouge
and Tigerland.
He suggested the Tigerland

area is neglected and students
have moved on to newer residences, and he wants to turn that
around.
“Everything around LSU
should be spic-and-span clean,
and Tigerland is far from that,”
Myers said, citing graduation
speakers and other illustrious visitors to the University’s campus.
Voters will also weigh in on
the gun law issue politicians have
been debating about for the past
few months.
The amendment proposes
concealed weapons permits are
unnecessary, and any further law
change would have to be reviewed
by a court.
Other amendments up for a
vote include setting money aside
for Medicaid, tax exemption for
non-manufacturing
businesses
that was previously conserved for
manufacturers and property tax
exemption for spouses of disabled
veterans.
Contact Megan Dunbar at
mdunbar@lsureveille.com

Tangled in the complex political web of election issues sits
education, which will have large
financial implications for many
students both during and after college graduation.
No matter what happens
Nov. 6, the U.S. will end up with
a president who graduated from
Harvard Law School.
Each candidate has personally invested a hefty amount of time
and dollars into higher education,
helping to fuel heated debates
on the subject at the forefront of
many students’ minds.
President Obama says Republican presidential nominee Mitt
Romney hasn’t prioritized education and that if the former Massachusetts governor is elected, he’ll
apply heavy cuts to student loan
funding, deepening the burden on
recent college graduates buried in
debt.
“I’m not going to cut education funding,” Romney responded
in the first of three presidential
debates, repeatedly asserting the
importance of a proper education
to lead a successful American life.
As governor, Romney implemented a state-funded, meritbased student aid program in

Presidential candidates often make college campus campaign stops. Just this week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney [left] visited
George Mason University on Monday, while President Barack Obama [right] visited the University of Cincinnati on Sunday.

Massachusetts. He also supports
the idea that higher education
should be available and affordable
to everyone, though he hasn’t offered ways to make it happen.
Obama has maintained that
higher education is one of his top
priorities, evident by the fact that
Pell Grant funding has yet to drop
despite the urge by Congress to
cut federal funding to the financial
aid program.
As president, he passed legislation that makes it easier for
students to pay back federal loans.
He also played a role in increasing
the number of Pell Grant recipients and extended the American
Opportunity Tax Credit, which

provides up to $2,500 of credit
per student annually, for up to
four years.
A possibility under either administration could be the elimination of subsidized student loans,
for which the federal government
pays the interest on student loans
while the recipient is enrolled in
college.
In any case, both tuition and
student debt are soaring both nationally and locally, according to
figures provided by the LSU Office of Budget & Planning and
The National Center for Education Statistics.
In Louisiana, 46 percent of
college students graduate with

debt, averaging more than $22,000
per student, according to a survey
of 2011 graduates by the Institute
for College Access & Success.
That’s not so bad compared to
the rest of the country.
The Bayou State has the
fourth-lowest percentage of students graduating with debt. As for
the amount of debt incurred, Louisiana ranks No. 35 in the U.S.,
meaning 34 states have higher
average debt amounts per student.
Political science junior Jamal
Reneau said he believes Obama
has the better policies for higher
education, but doesn’t think any
will get passed through a Republican Congress.

“There’s really a stalemate,”
Reneau said.
He won’t cast a vote in the
presidential election because he
feels powerless under the current
Electoral College system.
English senior Daniel Brooks
said he will vote for Obama, although he doesn’t believe either
candidate has an idea to improve
education as a whole.
“I get the feeling that Romney
is not too much concerned with
the plight of the overworked college student,” Brooks said, adding, “I think [Obama] really does
have student debt on his mind.”
The issue hits close to home
for Brooks because as a sixth-year
senior, he said he will definitely
graduate with debt.
Kinesiology sophomore Leslie Burch already cast her vote for
Romney, but she said education
“wasn’t the deciding factor.”
Other students, like first-time
voter and mass communication
sophomore Paige Fenerty, simply
haven’t researched the issue.
“It probably should [matter],
but I haven’t looked into it that
much yet,” Fenerty said.

For many University students,
this election will be the their first
time to cast a presidential ballot.
For agricultural business
sophomore Gabe Stelly, this election is important to him because he
feels like he finally has a voice.
Stelly said he has always been
involved with politics on the local level by talking to people and
expressing his views. He said he
feels like he finally has a reason to
campaign now that his vote counts
this year.
He said it’s important for students to vote because their votes

could affect the job market and
their opportunities for future careers.
“This is your country and you
are in college to get a job, but you
might not have a job to get in four
years when you graduate if you
don’t go out and vote,” Stelly said.
Biology freshman David
LaPlante also said it is students’
responsibilities to research the candidates and figure out what they
think is best.
He said even though each
person only has one vote, talking
to people could help others make
decisions.
“You can actually sway a lot
more votes than just your own. You

can campaign yourself,” LaPlante
said.
Stelly said he has always paid
attention to the news but has been
particularly attentive during this
election season.
He said much can be learned
about a candidate from the debates
by the amount of pressure the candidates face.
“The president is always under pressure. That won’t change
my vote, but it’s important to see
how they act under pressure,” Stelly said.
However, LaPlante said he
thinks the debates are subjective
and there is no defined winner.
“Everybody wants to say that

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whoever they decided on won the
debate,” LaPlante said.
LaPlante said voting is more
of a responsibility than a privilege,
adding he hopes other students
make their own decisions instead
of relying on their parents or peers
to make decisions for them. He
said voting for the same candidate
as one’s parents isn’t always a bad
thing, and it can be completely just.
“I see it as a responsibility to
absorb as much information as you
can, but a lot of people are spoonfed what they are going to vote by
their parents and peers,” LaPlante
said.
LaPlante said he was openminded when he made his

decision, and he hopes other students will be, too.
He said he plans to watch the
results alone because he doesn’t
want to be ganged up on by people
supporting a different candidate.
“It would be like watching the
’Bama game in the ’Bama section,
especially if ’Bama wins,” LaPlante said.
Stelly said he plans to watch
the election results with the College Republicans of Louisiana
State University dressed as Ronald
Reagan.
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While a downtrodden economy
and unemployment have been at the
forefront of the 2012 presidential
election, sensitive social issues have
been knocked mostly to the background.
But these issues often sway
some voters, said Bob Mann, a
University political communication
professor and director of the Reilly
Center for Media and Public Affairs.
Mann said campaigns use issues
such as opponents’ stances on abortion or marriage equality to “drive a
wedge” between the voter and an opposing candidate.
President Barack Obama is

pro-choice on abortion and has endorsed gay marriage, while Republican candidate Mitt Romney is prolife and against gay marriage.
Though Mann said abortion
hasn’t intruded much in the campaign this year, it came to light in
recent weeks when Obama criticized
Romney’s endorsement of Indiana
Senate contender Richard Mourdock, who supports a ban on abortion, including pregnancies resulting
from rape and incest because he said
they are “something that God intended.”
By criticizing Romney for this,
the Obama campaign is trying to
portray Romney as far-right wing
and drive a wedge between Romney
and women voters, Mann said.

Though the Romney campaign
says he disagrees with Mourdock’s
remark, Romney has yet to withdraw
his support.
On the other side, Mann said
Romney has tried to focus on economic issues, steering away from
approaching many social issues such
as abortion.
“It’s not an issue that generally
plays well for them with swing voters,” Mann said.
Republicans, though, have
changed their stances from far right
in the Republican primaries to move
more toward the middle ground.
This may account for the reason
Obama performed poorly in the first
presidential debate, Mann said.
While some people say they

vote solely on certain sensitive issues
deeply affecting them — known as
“single issue voters” — this is probably not entirely true, Mann said.
“People who say they’re ‘single
issue voters’ aren’t really ‘single issue voters,’” he said, explaining the
“single issue” is just a “proxy” for
other grievances people have against
candidates.
Creative writing and psychology junior Hannah Marks said voters should not base their decisions
on single issues, but she respects
that it’s their right to vote how they
choose.
“It’s not fair for other people to
say one issue is important enough,”
she said. “But if that’s the most important thing for them, then that’s

what they should vote for.”
Political science senior Megan
Lassere had similar sentiments, saying it can be “narrow-minded” to
vote on single issues.
“People should take more issues
into consideration,” Lassere said.
Overall, social issues haven’t
been a huge topic this election season and probably won’t be deciding
factors for most voters, Mann said.
“These ‘wedge’ issues that are
used to scare voters sort of recede
into the background when we’re
talking about people’s jobs and
future and health of the nation,”
he said.
Contact Chris Grillot at
cgrillot@lsureveille.com

Debate gaffes give entertainment, no matter the party
night just so that they could see
it and then said, ‘Which one is
an American? Which one is in a
city in America, and which one’s
in China?’ most Americans would
say, ‘Well, that great one is in
America.’ It’s not.”
-Joe Biden (June 15, 2012)

CHARLES DHARAPAK / The Associated Press

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PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / The Associated Press

MATT ROURKE / The Associated Press

“I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help
us find folks?’ And they brought us
whole binders full of — of women.”
-Mitt Romney (Oct. 16, 2012)

“If I blindfolded Americans
and took them into some of the
airports or ports in China, and
then took them to one in any one
of your cities in the middle of the

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Social media proves to be game-changer in elections
Olivia McClure
Contributing Writer

As short as two elections ago,
no one had to — or even could —
worry about keeping up with a political candidate on Twitter. Since
then, social media has grown to
be a signiﬁcant element of campaigns.
Bob Mann, mass communication professor and director of the
Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs, said in previous elections most campaigns viewed social media as a way to share things
such as advertisements and news
releases.
Now campaigns value social
media because it provides a way
to connect with and listen to the
electorate, Mann said.
“It’s not a superﬁcial thing,
it’s not a toy — it’s a true and very
effective way of creating relationships and something worth spending a lot of money on,” Mann said.
Mann said the relatively recent inclusion of social media in
campaigns is signiﬁcant because it
can empower voters.
“It used to be that the campaigns were much more command
and control where the decisions
were being made by a small coterie of people,” he said.
Mann said most campaigns
are still run this way, but smarter
ones take voters’ ideas into account. Technological novelties
like social media have made this
easier, he said.
He cited former Vermont
Gov. Howard Dean’s 2004

presidential bid, during which
Dean polled supporters online
about whether he should accept
federal matching funds for his
campaign, as an early example
of technology permitting voters’
opinions to impact campaign decisions.
“You can imagine the power
that people feel when they’ve actually been asked for their opinion,
and their voice actually counted,
and they feel like they played
some role in the campaign,” Mann
said.
Social media can also promote political conversations and
expose some users to information
and opinions they may not have
encountered otherwise, Mann
said.
“It may be that they ﬁnd that
they’re talking about the race
amongst their friends in ways they
never did before,” he said.
Mann pointed out that social media is especially useful
for communicating with young
people who are otherwise difﬁcult to reach because they tend not
to have landline phones and are
more transient.
But not all young people consult social media for information
about the election. Criminology
sophomore Patrick McWilliams
said he does not use social media
to learn about issues or candidates.
“I don’t follow any of the
candidates or anything like that
because it’s hard to separate the
truth and what’s the embellishments — what they want you to
hear so you’ll elect them,” he said.

Instead, McWilliams said
he usually visits websites like
PolitiFact.com to research and
form opinions on political matters.
And even among those who
do follow political candidates using social media, there are those
who do not actually support that
candidate.
A 2012 study conducted by
University political science professor Belinda Davis and Public
Policy Research Lab operations
manager Michael Climek reported “while the [President Barack]
Obama campaign’s dominance
in social networking is well established, it does not necessarily
translate into voter support among
young voters.”
The study also found no statistically signiﬁcant difference between the number of Obama and
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney supporters among young
likely voters who use social media
as a source of news.
Still, Mann said websites and
social media have offered campaigns a base from which to draw
volunteers.
For instance, many candidates’
websites,
including
Obama’s and Romney’s, feature
online calling tools that allow supporters to make phone calls for the
campaign from any location.
“I’m thinking about someone who is a Democrat in Baton
Rouge or some heavily Republican area who might be able to
do online help for Obama, for
example, in ways she couldn’t

a few years ago because there
wasn’t a campaign here, there
wasn’t anybody to talk to, there
wasn’t anybody to connect with to
get involved with the campaign,”
Mann said. “And suddenly,
you’ve got all these different ways
online to ﬁnd like-minded people

and connect with them.”

Contact Olivia McClure at
omcclure@lsureveille.com

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Though social issues are important when making a voting
decision, many religious students
say the economy is ultimately the
deciding factor in today’s presidential election.
“The No. 1 issue to me is,
of course, the economy and the
national debt. Social issues really aren’t that big of a deal to me
right now,” said political science
senior Cameron Cooke, member
of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry.
Cooke said if the economy
was better, he would value social
issues more than ﬁscal matters.
Cooke said he will vote for
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today, not because he is his ﬁrst choice, but
because he agrees with Romney
on most issues.
Cooke said he looks at which
candidate would line up most
with Christ’s teachings in the Bible, speciﬁcally those concerning
abortion and gay marriage.
“I’m not going to say Jesus
would be Republican, because
that’s ridiculous,” Cooke said.
“We as Christians are obligated
to search through the Scripture
to decide what it is that Christ
would see as appropriate and represent what being Christian is all
about.”
Cooke noted that though he
believes marriage is a church
matter, he believes Christ
would still embrace the LGBTQ

on abortion. She said she would
community.
“It’s a hard line to walk, but only vote for a pro-choice canI do believe with pro-choice and didate if she mostly agreed with
homosexuality [stances], Christ every other stance.
“My faith doesn’t affect evwould be adamantly against. He
would say to love one another, erything. My faith mainly just
and not damn people to hell,” affects the pro-life/pro-choice aspect of the elections,” Vedrenne
Cooke said.
Cooke said he would only said.
Allen Mire, English junior,
vote for a candidate who is prosaid he will vote for Green Party
choice in rare circumstances.
“It would take a lot in me,” nominee Jill Stein because he
he said. “It would have to be very doesn’t agree much with either
President Barack Obama or Romserious.”
Jessica Waggoner, communi- ney, though he prefers Obama.
“There really isn’t a negative
cation disorders junior, also said
for me voting my
the economy is
the most impor- ‘The No. 1 issue to me is, values in the election,” Mire said.
tant issue in the
election, but she of course, the economy “There’s a snowsaid she wouldn’t and the national debt. ball’s chance in
Louisiana
for
vote for a candiSocial issues really
Obama to win.”
date who doesn’t
Mire
atbelieve what she aren’t that big of a deal
tends the Unitardoes.
to me right now.’
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said though he’s
said her Christian
Cameron Cooke
faith helped her political science senior and member of not sure where
he stands ethimake the decision
the Baptist Collegiate Ministry
cally on abortion,
to vote for Romney, though she doesn’t agree he feels that the government
shouldn’t regulate something that
with everything he stands for.
“I want things to change. I could be dangerous if made illedon’t feel there are a lot of jobs gal.
The self-proclaimed humanleft right now,” she said.
Waggoner said she is pro-life ist said social issues like aborlike Romney, but she is mainly tion should be cultural issues, not
voting for him because he will try government problems.
Mire also said it is interestto repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Alise Vedrenne, communica- ing that the “religious right” have
tion disorders senior, said social
issues are most important to her,
only after the economy.
“[Romney] more agrees with
me on social issues, like the prolife thing. I’m just ready for a
change,” Vedrenne said.
Vedrenne said her Catholic
faith has helped shaped her views

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President Barack Obama leaves St. John’s Episcopal Church on Oct. 28 to return to
the White House with his daughters Sasha (left) and Malia (right) in Washington.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks with congregants as he leaves
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Oct. 21 in Boca Raton, Fla.

gotten behind Romney because
there were questions about his
Mormon faith in the primaries.
“It’s kind of amazing he was
able to beat both [Rick Santorum
and Michele Bachmann] to become the nominee,” Mire said.
Mire said Republicans may
have supported Romney because
his campaign was centered on
economic issues and not social
issues.
Harrison Winslow, an atheist
and biology major, said social issues are “ruled a lot by people’s

beliefs.”
Winslow said he will most
likely vote for Obama today, but
he may vote for Gary Johnson.
He said social issues are particularly important in his decisionmaking.
“I don’t feel like Mitt Romney is a very suitable candidate,”
Winslow said. “I guess ﬁscal
matters don’t matter that much as
Contact Danielle Kelley at
dkelley@lsureveille.com

University minority students
overwhelmingly look to President
Barack Obama as the presidential
candidate who can deliver equal
rights — a top voting issue for
them this election cycle.
“The Republican Party is on
the wrong side of history as far as
LGBTQ and women’s rights go,”
said Hope Phelps, an English and
psychology senior and the fundraising director for LSU’s Feminists in Action.
Young people care more about
social issues than issues like the
economy because social issues affect them more, Phelps said.
She is passionate about women’s rights for many reasons, but
mainly, this election year is the
ﬁrst time an issue has affected her
personally.
“I no longer have to pay $200
a month for birth control,” Phelps
said, referring to the Affordable
Care Act.
According to Phelps, free or
affordable birth control is an important part of women’s rights
because unplanned pregnancies
set women back. Also, more unplanned pregnancies lead to more
abortions, Phelps said.
Phelps said she was confused
about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s stance on
women’s rights, but said Obama’s
support for equal rights for men
and women is clear.
Another factor in Phelps’ decision to vote for Obama is the numerous Republican congressmen
who have been making comments
about rape, which Phelps said has
exacerbated the problem.
Stefano West, a kinesiology senior, is Latino and racially
mixed. West also identiﬁes as a
gay male.
“If I had to pick one issue, LGBTQ rights is deﬁnitely it,” West

said. “The economy will always
be up and down, and people will
always ﬁnd ways to make more
money. But you can’t have ups and
downs like that with people’s lives
and people’s happiness.”
Like Phelps, West said Obama
shows clear support for minority rights, but Romney’s stance is
vague.
“With Romney, the movement
would not progress. It would probably stay the same, but it might get
worse,” West said.
West said that the repeal of
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Obama’s
support for Pride month are two instances that show the president’s
support for LGBTQ rights.
Romney’s offensive statements about minorities in the viral
video made at a private fundraiser
earlier this year showed his true
opinion on minorities, West said.
Although West said most of
his friends support his status as
a minority, there is tension with
his friends who don’t share his
perspective on the presidential
candidates.
“When people I know say
they’re voting for Romney, I wonder if my rights matter at all to
them,” West said.
Estefania Reichard, an international studies senior and president of the Hispanic Student Cultural Society, said she will not vote
for Romney because his higher
socioeconomic status makes him
unaware “of the struggles that the
common member of the working
class and middle class both feel.”
Supporting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also
known as Obamacare, Reichard
supports women’s health issues,
the belief that birth control should
be free and is in favor of Obama’s
view on education.
Despite planning to vote for
Obama, Reichard acknowledges
Romney’s “business savvy,” but
stressed that “society isn’t a business” and that Romney has to learn
to relate to every group in America

courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Participants listen to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney deliver a speech during the NAACP annual
convention on July 11 in Houston.

to be president.
“He can run a company or a
business, and knows how to invest
and make millions and billions of
dollars, but what can he do for me
being a student, a woman, a woman of color and being in a working
class?” Reichard asked.
Acquiring a quality education
and education funding are some
of the most important issues for
African-American students, said
Kendale Thompson, political science senior and vice president of
the Black Student Union.
“Education is the tool and the
vehicle that will help us progress
because even though we have progressed, not much progression has
happened, and when we do progress we’re also getting a fall back,”
Thompson said. “If you improve
education, you improve the institution which, in turn, will improve
the community.”
Although Thompson said his
parents are capable of paying for
his tuition, he supports Obama’s
federal stimulus package and disagrees with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s
decision to reject the package.
Thompson said graduate

students are unable to receive many
of the grants they earned previously due to Jindal’s decisions, and
now these students struggle to provide money they do not possess.
“If I had to pick a candidate,
I would have to choose President
Obama because he seems like the
candidate that’s more into improving education and the development of students and making it
affordable for them because not
every student can go to their parent
and ask them to pay for school,”
Thompson said.
A
registered
Democrat,

Thompson said he’s willing to vote
for a candidate from either major
party as long as the views they support positively affect his own.
“If Romney was a whole lot
more pro-education, if he had policies that in my view helped the betterment of Americans as a whole,
then I might vote for him even
though he’s Republican,” he said.
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Are you
voting in the
presidential
election?

Daniel Espinoza
biological sciences
freshman

‘I already
voted. It’s
an important right
that we
worked
hard for,
especially
as AfricanAmericans.’

Courtney Reardon
pre-pharmacy
sophomore

‘Yes. I’ll be
graduating
soon,
and this
election
means a
lot to me
in terms
of job
security
and the
economy.’

‘I am
because
I feel
like the
political
apathy has
led our
country
down the
path
we’re on.’

Cameron Hertzock
biology freshman

‘I don’t
know
anything
about
politics,
and I think
people
shouldn’t
vote just
to vote.’

Only three-quarters of the
way through his college career,
John Parker Ford landed a job as
the director of collegiate relations
with Cain’s Solutions and put his
college education on hold in order
to participate in national politics.
Ford spent the past 11 months
helping former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s
campaign for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
As a college student, Ford
said he was amazed to be offered
the job after working for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2007
and 2011.
“I wouldn’t have even
thought for applying for this job
by myself,” he said.
Ford took the job even though
he had to put off his college career and move to Atlanta. He felt
working for a high-profile national candidate would be more beneficial than keeping school as his
first priority.
“It would have been almost
stupid to not take this job, especially since I’m working even before I’ve graduated,” Ford said.
He said his interest in politics
began during his freshman year in
2008 when the election dominated
the news cycle.
Ford was just beginning to
pay attention to news on his own
then, after leaving his parents’
house where politics were not a
topic of conversation.
His parents are both conservatives, and while Ford said that was
the jumping-off point for his own
views, he continues to develop his
personal politics through reading
the newspaper and keeping up with
current policy.
College, his reading and the
people he has met have shaped

Ford’s now more moderate viewpoint, but he still supports conservative ideals.
His favorite candidate in the
presidential race was U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr.,
who has been called a moderate
conservative and has called for a
third party to even out the U.S. political system.
While working for Cain’s
campaign was not a dream of
Ford’s, it helped him realize he
doesn’t mind working the 14-hour
days campaigning requires as long
as he’s invested in something he
loves.
Ford is enrolled in one online
course right now and will return
to the University for the spring
semester.
From January until July, Ford
arranged events, especially on
college campuses, for Cain as he
campaigned for Romney and other Republican candidates.
From July until last Friday,
Ford’s job was arranging a 30-college tour in mostly swing states
for a Cain initiative called “The
College Truth Tour.”
Ford said he enjoyed having
so much to do with a large campaign, and in an ideal world, he
would combine his directorship
with the College Truth Tour with
the political message of the first
seven months of his job.
“I loved parts of it, and I hated some parts, but I got addicted,”
Ford said about working in the political world.
Ford said the events he
worked on for the first half of his
year focused on Republican solutions to national problems, and
featured Cain giving a 45-minute
speech with a question-and-answer session following.
The format of the College
Truth Tour talks were similar, Ford said, but the content

changed dramatically.
Instead of solutions, Cain
spoke about nationwide problems.
“Instead of saying, ‘Hey, go
vote,’ we were saying, ‘Hey, go
vote, but make sure you’re informed,’” Ford said.
He took away two main
points from the experience.
The crowd would get “turned
off” when Cain began talking
about social issues.
“You could see it in people’s
faces,” Ford said.
The Republican Party “is losing a lot of support from young
people and moderate older people
— not because of stance, but because of the way we present the
stance,” Ford said.
He said the other side of this
was the liberal faction who came
with signs supporting President
Barack Obama and sometimes
“never raised them because they
agreed with Cain.”
Ford doesn’t think the College Truth Tour changed much
on a larger scale, but said it had
an impact for the scale on which
they worked.

He estimated the tour reached
about 15,000 students.
“It’s a small piece in a huge
picture,” Ford said.
His follow-up job until election day was to make sure the
events mobilized students to vote,
and produced results in the form
of more registered voters.
Ford also helped write one of
Cain’s messages.
“Cain doesn’t have speeches,
he more takes a couple, maybe
six bullet points, and talks about
those,” Ford said. “I was able to
write the summary for his message once.”
Ford said in the future, he
would like to work for something
in the private sector relating to
public relations, or work on a lower rung of the political ladder.
“I was able to do my job
fine. I was competent, but I really should not have been in that
high of a position so young,”
Ford said.
Contact Megan Dunbar at
mdunbar@lsureveille.com

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[Top left] Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks to students on Sept. 28 in the LSU Union Theater. [Top right]
Ron Paul delivers a speech to students on Sept. 23 in the LSU Union Theater. [Bottom left] Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney meets with his campaign supporters and Gov. Bobby Jindal on July 16 at the City Club in Baton Rouge. [Bottom
right] Newt Gingrich speaks to the Baton Rouge Tea Party on March 22 in Dodson Auditorium.

Student Government’s Ofﬁce
of External Affairs has hosted a
slew of activities over the past few
months to encourage students to
vote.
In partnership with HeadCount, a national organization
that collaborates with musicians to
promote participation in politics,
Leslie Leavoy, mass communication senior and SG’s director of
External Affairs, held voter registration drives for students for about
six weeks during table-sits in Free
Speech Plaza.
“We would have table-sits two
or three times a week for about
six weeks, and we would register
at least 20 students every time, so
we consider that a pretty good turnout,” she said.
The University only allows
registered student organizations to
hold table-sits, so SG was an avenue through which HeadCount
held registration drives because
HeadCount was not a registered
student organization at the time,
said Jonathan Brothers, psychology senior and HeadCount’s Baton

Rouge team leader and New Orleans co-team leader.
Many students told Leavoy
and Brothers they were already
registered to vote, but many also
asked about voting early, voting
locations.
But when External Affairs
noticed how many students asked
about absentee voting, SG created
the “How to Absentee Vote!” Facebook group page within the University’s group pages. The page
lists the Secretary of State websites
for every state for students to learn
how absentee ballots operate in
their state.
“We got a really good response
to that, and I think absentee ballots
and voting early is becoming really popular on college campuses,”
Leavoy said.
Leavoy said she plans to study
why students choose not to vote
because the choice not to do so
“irks” her.
“In national elections with the
Electoral College at work, there is
a sense that everyone knows how
Louisiana is going to vote,” she
said. “It’s been Republican forever, so everyone just assumes it’s
going to go like that. Just because

it may or may not do that doesn’t
mean you shouldn’t exercise a
fundamental right.”

The campaigning has been
ugly, the debates
felt more like one
long episode of
“The Real Housewives” than political powerhouse
meetings and Jim
Lehrer’s therapist
probably put a
KACI YODER
down payment on Entertainment Writer
a condo in Tahiti
halfway through the first debate.
How does one deal with election night? The vice presidential

candidates are probably either
kicked back at Dairy Queen with a
Dilly Bar or pumping out another
set at the gym. But what about everyone else?
Naturally, like red-blooded
Americans, many turned to drinking games for the debates. For
some, it was a much needed way
to calm their nerves and keep from
pitching furniture at their television sets. For others, an alcoholic
scavenger hunt was the only way
to endure two hours of talking in
circles about taxes and healthcare.

The Rules:
Take one sip when:

You hear any of the following words: ground
game, firewall, Sandy, photo ID, recount,
youth vote, Obamacare, battle-ground, interest group.
A state is declared red or blue.
Any of the third party candidates are
mentioned (Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil
Goode, Rocky Anderson)
Any of the swing states are mentioned by
name (Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado,
New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin).
A past president is mentioned.

No matter their differences,
Americans can agree: When it
comes to the tough issues, it’s an
American’s constitutional right to
get wasted on Tuesday night.
DebateDrinking.com,
has
emerged as the leader in bipartisan
boozing, posting rules for drinking
games before every debate and using Twitter and Ustream to keep
score in real time. Similar lists have
circulated all over the country, carrying on the age-old tradition of
coping with high-stress situations
through organized binge drinking.

For those who are spending
tonight camped out in front of a
screen — TV, computer, phone,
iPad or all of the above — here’s a
little something to help you through
it. Whether one sip, two sips or
the whole drink, this is a roundup
of some of the best election night
drinking game rules around.

Contact Kaci Yoder at
kyoder@lsureveille.com

Tune into your network of choice and break out your laptop.
Use some, use all, or add your own.
Take two sips when:
Finish your drink when:
You hear any of the following words: voter suppression,
Romnesia, elderly, Latino, five-point plan, liberal bias,
Benghazi, marriage.
A hologram appears.
Paul Ryan’s workout photoshoot is shown.
Someone criticizes Obama’s performance in the first debate.
Someone brings up Romney’s “47 percent” comments.
A candidate’s Twitter account posts a picture of the candidate and/or his team watching the votes come in.
Photos of Hurricane Sandy aftermath are shown.
Anderson Cooper delivers a zinger.
A person on your Facebook newsfeed threatens to leave
the country.

You hear any of the following words:
FEMA, Osama bin Laden, binders.
The LSU/Alabama game is mentioned.
Your candidate of choice wins a
swing state.

Fans buy celebrity-endorsed
perfumes, alcohol and clothing
brands, but some even buy into
celebrities’ presidential candidate
endorsements.
With the presidential campaign drawing to a close, many
celebrities have let fans know
which candidate they’re supporting. Endorsements have been declared over the past few months
in the form of social media shoutouts, YouTube videos and campaign appearances.
Team Obama: Katy Perry,
Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam,
Jay-Z, Will Ferrell, Julianne
Moore, Neil Diamond, Lady
Gaga, Madonna, Eva Longoria,
Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks,
George Clooney.
Team Romney: Kid Rock,
Kelsey Grammar, Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris, Lindsay
Lohan, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeff
Foxworthy, Donald Trump, Jack
Nicklaus, Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons, Adam Sandler.
Pop singer Katy Perry appears to be dressing for her candidate’s success. Perry has sported
election apparel at several of her
concerts in the past month. A blue
dress featuring the “Forward”
campaign slogan and a ballot
frock with the Obama box selected have made Perry’s stance
clear.
Clint Eastwood made a
splash with his unorthodox
endorsement of Mitt Romney at
CELEBRITY, see page 19

A look at the 2012 elections through Internet memes

Candidates’ quotes
create viral sarcasm
David Jones

Entertainment Writer

From Big Bird to binders, Internet memes have catapulted the
simplest of presidential utterings
into web-wide satirical sensations this political season.
After months of campaigning, one vice presidential debate
and three presidential face-offs,
the election has spurred loads of
ludicrous material for the newest
form of political commentary.
Here’s a recap of the most
notable 2012 election moments
through political memes.

“You didn’t build that”
In July, President Barack
Obama spoke at Virginia rally
and uttered four words that would
follow him through the election:
“You didn’t build that.” The president was referring to small businesses relying on both individual
ambition and public infrastructure, but Republicans quickly
pounced on the statement as a
hostile ignorance to free market
practices. The comment spawned
a variety of memes, including
Obama donned in a Pharaoh costume yelling, “You didn’t build
that” to Egyptian slaves working
on pyramids.
“You didn’t have to cut me off”
If the three presidential
debates were boxing matches, the

first was a knockout with the ending blow landing on the referee.
Jim Lehrer, moderator of the first
debate, struggled to tame the two
presidential candidates, who often ignored the docile host and
constantly cut him off. The painful interaction among the three
men prompted the fusion of Lehrer and Gotye’s face to create a
spin on the signature “You didn’t
have to cut me off” meme.
B for Budget Cuts
During the first presidential
debate, Republican candidate
Mitt Romney spoke on government spending and his plan to
end subsidies to PBS. The result?
No home for Big Bird. The Inter-

MEMES, see page 19

photo from of knowyourmemes.com

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s response about gender inequality in the
workplace quickly went viral after the second presidential debate.

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FOOTBALL

Scott Branson

ART OF DIVING

Tigers breakdown intricacies of the sport

1. The planning

Sports Contributor

Anyone who has seen a dive knows what’s the
most important to a good score — a small splash.
But beyond that, who knows what to look for?
LSU senior diver Elle Schmidt and junior
diver Daniel Helm know. The Tigers walked
The Daily Reveille through some of diving’s
ﬁner points:

• • • • • • • • • • • •

“We do six dives in competition and have to cover ﬁve,”
Schmidt said “Front, back, inward
[standing backward but you dive in
toward the board], gainer [standing
frontward but you dive back into
the board], and then a twisting category.”
Schmidt said LSU diving
coach Doug Shaffer decides which
dives the Tigers do in competition,
and the list of dives is published
well in advance of a meet.

2. The mindset
What do divers think about before taking the
plunge?
“Nothing,” Helm said. “Once you get on the
board, you don’t really think. You just let your body
do.”
Schmidt said she tries to focus on one thing before each dive and lets the rest take care of itself.
“You try not to think of it all at once because
if you did, it would seem psychotic,” Schmidt said.

Each speciﬁc dive has its own degree of difﬁculty, which determines a maximum score
for each dive. After a dive, the degree of difﬁculty is multiplied by the judges’ scores to ﬁnd
the dive’s total score.
“Judges look for height, proximity to the board and splash,” Schmidt said. “Other than
that, it’s form. If your legs are bent or your toes aren’t pointed, you’re going to get points
off.”
Helm said the judging can start even before the diver reaches the end of the platform or
springboard.
“Judging starts right when you get on the board, pretty much,” Helm said. “If you look
funny on the board they’re already picking you away on it.”

Schmidt said when divers enter the
water like they’re supposed to, their hands
hit ﬁrst and make a hole in the water for
their body to pass through, and the consequences of making a mistake are immediate.
“If you go in the water and something
hurts, that’s a pretty good indication that it
went wrong,” Schmidt said.
Helm said he knows right away if the
dive is going to score well and that getting
it just right “feels amazing.”

3. The dive

It doesn’t take long to ﬁgure out how a dive is
going to pan out, Schmidt said.
“You know if you get a good takeoff whether
it’s going to be good or bad,” Schmidt said.
Helm said if something doesn’t feel right,
there’s only so much he can do before hitting the
water.
“If your tops aren’t there or your spins aren’t
there, you know you have to save it or cross
your ﬁngers and hope you go in on your head,”
Helm said.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

• • • • • • • •

4. The ﬁnish

• • • • • • • • • •

5. The scoring

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

photos by RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

LSU redshirt freshman Lzzy Choquehuance dives Oct. 31.

Miles
focuses on
positives
in loss
Tigers look ahead
to Saturday’s game
James Moran
Sports Contributor

Rather than focusing on the
upcoming game against No. 22
Mississippi State, LSU coach Les
Miles was forced to spend most
of his media luncheon answering
questions about the No. 9 Tigers’
21-17 loss to No. 1 Alabama on
Saturday.
Miles said his team played
well despite the media portraying
an Alabama victory as a “foregone conclusion.”
“I’m awfully proud of this
team,” Miles said. “It’s an interesting thing when you pick up the
newspaper and watch TV and nobody gives you a chance.”
Miles focused on some of the
game’s positives.
“I thought the offense had
a very productive night versus
a very, very capable defense,”
Miles said. “It was maybe [the
offense’s] most complete game
of the season.”
Several of the questions focused on Miles’ play-calling
against Alabama.
On fourth-and-12 from the
Alabama 30, Miles called a fake
ﬁeld goal, but the Alabama defense was ready, and the play was
stopped for a loss of two yards.
“We saw something we
liked, and I wanted to go after it,”
Miles said. “Maybe it was a little
too aggressive.”
On the next drive, Miles sent
out senior kicker Drew Alleman
to attempt a 54-yard ﬁeld goal on
fourth-and-4. Alleman’s kick fell
short of the goal post, one of the
kicker’s two misses of the day.
Alleman is just 13-for-20
kicking ﬁeld goals this season,
but Miles insisted that he isn’t
planning to change kickers.
“I like Drew Alleman,”
Miles said. “He’s my kicker.
I’ll take him. We’ll win a lot of
games with him and we have won
a lot of games with him.”
Miles said if given another
opportunity, he and defensive
coordinator John Chavis would
not change the defensive play
calls on Alabama’s ﬁnal drive,
when the Tide went 72 yards in
43 seconds for the game-winning
touchdown.
Miles acknowledged that the
touchdown, a 28-yard pass from
MILES, see page 15

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Morgan living the dream, following in mother’s footsteps
Freshman set to
make a big impact
Chandler Rome
Sports Writer

Clichés aside, Malik Morgan
is living the dream.
The former John Curtis star
who led the Patriots to the Class
2A state title last season is following in his mother, Detra’s,
footsteps as he tries to establish
himself in Johnny Jones’ first
season.
“My mom played volleyball
here. She was an All [Southeastern Conference] player,” Morgan
said. “I just wanted to come here
and create my own legacy.”
Starring on two SEC Championship teams in 1985 and 1986,
Detra Brown led LSU in kills,
hitting percentage and digs in
1985, all the while influencing
her son from childhood.
Although he committed under former coach Trent Johnson,
Morgan said he never wavered
in his pledge to the Tigers after
Johnson bolted for TCU.
“I just wanted to play in my
backyard,” Morgan said. “I always felt like this was the school
for me since I was young.”

Morgan’s loyalty to the
stately oaks had wide-ranging
implications, especially impressing junior guard Andre Stringer.
“I think it said a lot about
his character,” Stringer said. “He
wasn’t trying to be a selfish guy.
I think that shows a commitment not to a coach, but to the
school itself.

Carrying his passion for the
purple and gold onto the practice court, Morgan continues to
impress Jones with his rapid progression in transition into the college game.
The transition looked seamless Monday as Morgan poured
in 18 points off the bench, knocking down all three of his three

point attempts in an exhibition
against Arkansas-Monticello.
“Coming off the bench didn’t
mean anything for me,” Morgan
said. “I just wanted to stay focused the whole game.”
Unsure of who will become
the fifth starter before the team’s
Nov. 9 opener against UCSB,
Jones hinted that Morgan could
take over the starting job at the
wing, opposite Stringer.
“[Morgan] is very coachable
and eager to learn,” Jones said.
“He’s a lot farther along than I
thought he’d be.”
Reigning praise upon his
crew of teammates, Morgan said
the talent he’s surrounded by
is not only making him a better
player, but providing a glimpse
into the future.
“We have one of the best
point guards in my eyes, [sophomore Anthony] Hickey, one of
the fastest point guards,” Morgan
said. “We have one of the great
shooters in Stringer on the other

wing … so we’re just going to
run as hard as we can.”
Stringer said he’s been impressed with Morgan thus far in
practice, specifically his nose for
the ball and his ability to create
open jumpers.
“He’s very explosive and a
fast guy,” Stringer said. “He deflects a lot of passes and gets a
lot of rebounds, so I’ve seen a lot
from him so far.”
Heading into the team’s exhibition against Arkansas-Monticello Monday, Morgan vowed to
do whatever he could to ensure
success.
“I think everyone understands what their role is and
everyone
understands
what
they can do,” Morgan said.
“We’ve just got to play to each
other’s strength.”
Contact Chandler Rome at
crome@lsureveille.com;
Twitter: @Rome_TDR

Only four days removed
from watching former LSU
standout Ryan Theriot propel his
San Francisco Giants, the current
batch of Tigers crowned a World
Series champion of their own.
Behind two stellar pitching
performances from junior Ryan
Eades and freshman Russell
Reynolds, the Gold team won the
first two six-inning games and
held off a furious Purple rally in
the third game to capture the annual Purple-Gold World Series,
concluding the Tigers’ six-week
fall practice session.
“I think the past few weeks
demonstrated that we can be outstanding in all phases of the game
– hitting, pitching and defense,”
LSU coach Paul Mainieri said in
a news release.
Eades pitched three scoreless innings for the Gold team in
Game 1, surrendering only one
hit and striking out three.
Sophomore outfielder Chris
Sciambra blasted a double off
his high school teammate, sophomore starting pitcher Aaron Nola,

to lead off the scoring for the
Gold team in the second inning.
Breaking the game open in
the sixth inning with four runs,
the Gold team got RBIs from
freshman shortstop Alex Bregman and sophomore infielder
Evan Powell after a double from
junior infielder JaCoby Jones,
giving Gold a 5-1 win.
Fresh off a neck injury last
season that sidelined him for almost the entire season, Sciambra
added two RBI’s in Game 2 , impressing Mainieri with his speedy
outfield play and plate discipline.
“Coming on the heels of
such a serious injury, it warms
your heart to see that young man
playing at such a high level without being hesitant or tentative,”
Mainieri said.
Reynolds and senior Brent
Bonvillian impressed in Game 2,
combining to allow only six hits
in six total innings of work.
Highlighted by Sciambra’s
two run-scoring hits, Gold held
off Purple, which was boosted
by a solo home run from junior
infielder Christian Ibarra, by a
score of 4-2.
Mainieri wanted his teams
to play a full three-game series, rather than a traditional
three-game set where a winner
is crowned after it has won two
games. After Gold took the first

two games of the series, Purple
needed to win the third game by
more than seven runs in order to
“win” the series.
Purple started Game 3 on a
tear, shelling Gold junior starter
Kurt McCune to the tune of six
runs on six hits through one-anda-third innings.
Led by a pair of RBI triples
from freshman outfielder Andrew Stevenson and McMullen,
coupled with senior outfielder
Raph Rhymes’ two RBIs, Purple
jumped out to a 6-1 lead and
looked to spoil Gold’s first two
wins.
But senior southpaw Chris
Cotton shut Purple down, striking out two of the four batters he
faced in the sixth inning to preserve the game and series win for
Gold, although losing the game
7-1.
“We had a very good fall,
and I’m convinced we’ll be in
the hunt for everything we’d
like to accomplish this spring,”
Mainieri said.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew
Brees and the New Orleans Saints
picked up a much-needed win.
For Michael Vick and the
Philadelphia Eagles, more misery.
Brees threw two touchdown
passes, extending his NFL record
streak to 51 games, and Patrick
Robinson returned an interception
99 yards for a score to lead the
Saints to a 28-13 win over the reeling Eagles on Monday night.
New Orleans (3-5), which
bounced back from a dismal 34-14
loss at Denver, also got a 22-yard

touchdown run from Chris Ivory.
The Eagles (3-5) lost their
fourth straight, which is sure to
keep the heat on Vick and embattled coach Andy Reid. Vick threw
a 77-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson in the third quarter,
but that was about the only highlight for the visiting team which
saw Vick sacked seven times.
Not that they didn’t have their
chances. The Eagles had first-andgoal four times and managed only
two field goals by Alex Henery. In
fact, they were outscored in those
situations, with Robinson going
the other way for a touchdown just
when it looked like Philadelphia

BILL HABER / The Associated Press

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees throws a touchdown pass Monday
during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

MILES, from page 13

junior quarterback A.J. McCarron to freshman running back T.J.
Yeldon, was the result of a blown
coverage.
LSU currently sits at No. 7 in
the BCS standings. If the Tigers
can win out, they have a good
chance of making a BCS bowl.
Losses by one-loss teams
like Georgia and Florida would
help the Tigers’ chances.
“Let’s just see how this thing
goes,” Miles said. “Can we end
up in a BCS bowl? It certainly
seems like a possibility.”
With the hopes of returning
to the BCS National Championship game all but gone, Miles
said his team needs to move past
the loss and focus on playing

Mississippi State on Saturday.
“Today, we will watch that
film again and then beyond
that, we are done,” Miles said.
“You’re forgetting it. We’re taking the positive and moving on
and looking forward to playing a
very capable team.”

Contact James Moran at
jmoran@lsureveille.com

was on the verge of scoring.
Rubbing salt in the wound,
Philadelphia squandered a chance
to get back in the game with a brilliant trick play on a kickoff return.
Riley Cooper laid flat in the end
zone, unseen by the Saints, then
popped up to take a cross-field lateral from Brandon Boykin.
Cooper streaked down the
sideline for an apparent touchdown. Only one problem —
Boykin’s lateral was actually a
forward pass by about a yard, ruining the play with a penalty. Cooper
stood with his hands on his hips in
disbelief as the officials brought it
back.
Philadelphia finished with 447
yards — the eighth straight team
to put up more than 400 yards on
the Saints. That was already the
longest streak of 400-yard games
given up by a defense since at least
1950, and maybe in the history of
the NFL, putting New Orleans on
pace to shatter the record for most
yards allowed in a season.
But New Orleans came
through where it mattered most,
giving up a season low in points.
Their previous best was a 31-24
victory over San Diego.
Philadelphia’s last gasp was a
fourth-down pass that Vick threw
away in the back of the end zone
with 7 seconds left, apparently
more concerned about avoiding
another pick than tacking on a
meaningless TD.
Brees kept his record touchdown streak going, hooking up
with Marques Colston on a 1-yard

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New Orleans Saints running back Pierre Thomas carries Monday against a Philadelphia
Eagles linebacker during a game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

scoring pass and Jimmy Graham
from 6 yards out.
The Saints quarterback finished 21 of 27 for 239 yards, a
big improvement on his 22-of42 showing against the Broncos.
Brees also got plenty of help from
the running game, which came
into the league ranked last in the
league.
Ivory, Pierre Thomas and
Mark Ingram combined for 136
yards, each breaking off doubledigit gains.
The embattled Saints defense
kept the heat on Vick and the beating made it tough for No. 7 to establish any rhythm. He finished
22 of 41 for 272 yards and really
couldn’t be blamed for Robinson’s

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interception, which went off the
hands of tight end Brent Celek.
Celek had a tough night. He
also lost a fumble deep at the New
Orleans 8 with just over 3 minutes
remaining, essentially ending any
hope of a Philadelphia comeback.

Why I Wasted My Vote
Gary Johnson is the only candidate tackling many important issues

— although he wants to ban lateterm abortions — and he is willing
to end the War on Drugs, which
has succeeded only in making our
prison population the largest in
the world and ruining the lives of
many nonviolent individuals.
This isn’t to say I agree with
all of Johnson’s policies.
His desire to cut all government programs by 43 percent
and replace the income and estate
taxes with the Fair Tax, a single
national consumption tax, seems a
bit regressive for my tastes.
However, my vote for Johnson is something of a strategic and
symbolic gesture.
The Libertarian Party is the
best hope for fiscal conservatism
in America. Forgoing the social
conservatism that, mark my words,
will be defeated by history, the
Libertarian Party is the conservative foil needed to keep Democrats
on their toes, especially in regard
to civil liberties.
Unfortunately, as a third party,
it has had to overcome obstacles
just to get on the ballot. Johnson
is only on the ballot in 48 of the 50
states, and he had to battle in the
courtrooms just to get there.
Yet, if Johnson receives just 5
percent of the popular vote today,
then the Libertarian Party will receive equal funding and ballot access in all states in 2016.
This could help the Libertarian Party and, perhaps, other
third parties like the Green Party
emerge as contenders in national
politics. Americans could even
become enlightened as to how two
party control limits their choices.
Either way, I owe it to many to
vote for Johnson.
I owe it to Americans who
fear their government’s encroachment on civil liberties, I owe it to
those who’ve been beaten by the
harsh drug laws in this country and
I owe it to the innocent victims of
drone strikes in the Middle East.
I wouldn’t waste my vote on
anyone else.

MANUFACTURING
DISCONTENT

DAVID SCHEUERMANN
Columnist
Today, I wasted my vote.
While most Americans traversed their polling stations with a
clear intent to vote for either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, I
had a different plan in mind.
I voted third party. I voted for
Libertarian Party candidate Gary
Johnson.
The former governor of New
Mexico isn’t the most popular or
widely known candidate — he’s
polled at only 6 percent across
the nation. However, Johnson’s
platform offers the kind of stark
change we were promised four
years ago, and it’s a change we
need to embrace.
In the past 12 years, I’ve
witnessed this nation move in a
disturbing direction. Civil liberties have been rolled back at an
alarming pace; we’ve involved
ourselves in numerous foreign
conflicts, all while sacrificing our
ideals and morality; and the beginning of a sophisticated surveillance state has emerged to keep
watch over us.
I never had a say in any of
these policies until now.
Johnson has the strongest record among every candidate on the
ballot when it comes to civil liberties. In January, the American Civil Liberties Union gave Johnson
the best score on its “Candidate
Report Card on Civil Liberties.”
The Libertarian Party candidate has voiced opposition to the
Patriot Act, the 2001 law that allowed law enforcement to conduct
warrantless searches, and the FISA
Amendments Act, which expanded the National Security Agency’s
ability to monitor Americans’ communications and gave telecommunications companies complicit in
this act immunity from lawsuits.
Johnson is also the only major
candidate who has stated he would
never have signed the National
Defense Authorization Act of 2012
(NDAA). The NDAA allowed the
federal government to indefinitely
detain anyone, including American citizens, without a trial.
Similarly,
Johnson
is

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bringing a sane and reasonable
foreign policy to the table this
election.
Johnson wants to bring the
troops home from Afghanistan as
soon as possible and to end American military intervention around

the globe. He is also the only major candidate who is against the
use of drones –– he claims they
create more terrorists than they
kill and that they harm too many
innocent civilians.
Liberals can find comfort

knowing that Johnson, like most
libertarians, rejects the social conservatism that has come to dominate the Republican Party.
The libertarian has openly said
gay marriage is a constitutionally
protected right, he is pro-choice

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Quote of the Day

“We always want the best man to
win an election. Unfortunately, he
never runs.”

Will Rogers
American cowboy and humorist
Nov. 4, 1879 — Aug. 15, 1935

The Daily Reveille

Opinion

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

page 17

Why I voted for Obama Why I voted for Romney
SCUM OF THE
GIRTH

THE DAMN
HAMM

PARKER CRAMER
Chief Columnist

TAYLOR HAMMONS
Columnist

Barack Obama: My favorite secret
Muslim.
Our president of the past four years
has spent most of that time, like many
politicians, being ridiculed by the opposing party.
Despite the Republican effort, the
odds are still in the president’s favor to
win today’s election. Why? Because half
the country still has faith in his policies
and shares his ideals.
My vote for Obama wasn’t just a vote
against Romney. I happen to agree with
the president on most things, socially and
economically.
Obama is pro-gay marriage, which
seems to be gaining support among college-aged students from both sides of the
divide.
Let’s be honest. Those who oppose
gay marriage are staving off the inevitable. In this country, we have separation of
church and state. The state can’t touch the
churches, but somehow the churches keep
getting away with dictating federal policy.
Obama is also the candidate who has
worked to improve women’s rights in the
workplace. The president supports the
Paycheck Fairness Act, which dictates that
women would have to make the same as
their male counterparts for the same job.
Obama is the candidate who is working to continue funding to Planned Parenthood, which, despite popular belief, is not
a coal-fired baby furnace. But if it was, I’m
sure it would be clean coal.
Planned Parenthood provides a multitude of women’s health services to lowincome females.
Socially, we see eye to eye. Economically, Obama’s policies make the most
sense mathematically.
When people preach the glories of
trickle-down economics, all I can picture
is a bunch of rich old men dressed in tuxedos, twisting their unlit cigars and adjusting their monocles, smugly saying, “I
can’t believe they bought it.”
For the wealthiest proportion of our
society to pay virtually no tax on the basis
that capital gains aren’t actually income is
one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
Is there new cash in your pocket or
more numbers in your account? If yes,
then it’s taxable.
America was founded on the hatred of
tax. There would have been no revolution
without taxes.
Today, if even one new tax is proposed, people cry socialism.
However, in the 1950s when the tax
rate was roughly 50 percent — depending on the income bracket — nobody
cried socialism.
It was America’s golden age, the
height of McCarthyism and the fight

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against the evils of communism. A socialist takeover was a real threat, yet nobody
associated the relatively high taxes of the
day with being part of a socialist agenda.
Taxes were higher, yet President
Eisenhower wasn’t called a socialist.
Obama is not a socialist. Democrats
are not socialists.
Romney cannot balance a deficit –– in
spite of his business background –– if he
has no income tax to balance with.
And maybe for some Americans,
that’s exactly what they’re looking for: a
nongovernment, a literal stagnation of all
progress and public services.
Is that what we want? A confederation
of states each choosing whose rights to
recognize and whose to repress?
That’s not the America I want to live
in. There has to be some form of federal
oversight. The states are supposed to be
united, not independent.
To enjoy what the future has to offer,
we cannot devolve to the ways of the past.
Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political
science senior from Houston.

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“Ideally, you want to vote
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I was born into a conservative family with a racist uncle and a majority of
closed-minded relatives, so I am relieved
to have the parents I do.
My parents raised me to think for myself and challenge my judgments, which
have been two of the most important
things I’ve learned in life.
I was never the best of sons, causing
more trouble than not and breaking the
rules more often than abiding by them, but
I took those lessons to heart and put them
to practice when I could.
With this election being my first, I
challenged myself to stay informed so
I could vote for the candidate I believed
would serve the country the best – but I
was unsure where to begin.
As a college student, I am concerned
about the future and constantly worrying about the job market for graduates. I
knew that in order to increase my chances
of getting a job, I needed a president who
respects market forces.
Unsure how either candidate would
improve the market, I sought answers.
But before diving into the political
scene, I defined exactly what I was looking for out of the next president.
I decided the candidate to win my vote
would be the one who limits price controls,
gives states the flexibility they need and
recognizes the danger of taxes only to the
rich – because a benefit distributed equally
should be paid for equally, otherwise the
concern for price is lost.
When it comes to fixing the economy,
conventional wisdom would point to the
conservative. But when Obama took office
the market was spiraling down. He has
since turned it around, so I didn’t fall for
the commonwealth.
In fact, both candidates have eerily
similar plans, and it proved difficult to find
the difference. In the end, though, the difference lies in funding, the limit of government control and, of course, taxes.
The president’s plan is to implement
more direct government employment at
higher wages, more government contracting to enforce the higher wages and more
government aid for college students to
raise their average salaries.
But financial aid is more of a trap than
a solution. It works by ensuring students
are able to afford college, but it does not
ensure that students will graduate. If the
recipient drops out of school, he or she
must begin paying back the loan immediately.
But how can they when jobs are
scarce? Isn’t the whole purpose of financial aid is to increase job opportunities?
There’s still a possibility I won’t
graduate. I hope that isn’t the case, but if it
were, I would need a job more than ever.

away your vote is not voting your
conscience; it is merely wasting
an opportunity.
Agreed that Obama has disappointed liberals like me in not
acting to reverse the excesses of
the Bush administration. However, by not voting for the lesser
of the two evils as you suggest,

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Republican candidate Mitt Romney
plans to reduce income taxes by 20 percent
to increase consumer spending. A secondary effect will be the promotion of small
businesses, and more businesses means
more jobs.
Romney’s plan addresses the issue
indirectly. As a result, more jobs will be
available whether a person holds a degree
or not.
Moreover, in his book “No Apology,”
Romney addresses his actions to handle
education policy after becoming the governor of Massachusetts. He displays the
ability to consume and synthesize information, suggesting he has the capacity to
be the leader this country needs, and unlike any trite Republican we don’t need.
This is why Mitt Romney won my
vote: The future he has planned is a future
in which I see myself better off in four
years.
Taylor Hammons is a 19-year-old mass
communication sophomore from Atlanta.

you leave the field open to the
greater evil. Consider the consequences when, in 2000, people of
conscience voted for Ralph Nader because they thought Al Gore
was beholden to special interests.
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consequences for twelve years.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
CELEBRITY, from page 11

MORY GASH / The Associated Press

Katy Perry performs Saturday before
President Barack Obama arrives at a
campaign event in Milwaukee.

the GOP convention. The Hollywood giant mocked an empty
chair occupied by an imaginary
President Obama. The off-thewall endorsement tactic drew
criticism, compliments and the
ire of comedians.
Will Ferrell lent his comedic brand to a YouTube video,
proclaiming he will do anything
to get people to cast their votes
on Nov. 6. “I will personally give

you a tattoo,” Ferrell unflinchingly promised. “Fair warning, I
do not know how to draw.” Ferrell concludes the video by telling viewers a vote for Obama is a
“slam dunk.”
Laura Johnson, mathematics
junior and Will Ferrell fan, said
she can’t help being influenced
by Ferrell’s endorsement video.
“I love Will Ferrell,” Johnson said. “I’m not a supporter of
Obama, but Will liking him does
make me want to listen to him
more.”
Johnson said the celebrity
endorsements, and ensuing press
coverage, serve as an affirmation
of the stars’ importance in realms
outside of the entertainment industry.
“It strengthens the notion
that celebrities are more than
people, that their opinions mean
more than mine or yours,” Johnson said.
Kara Samson, sociology department administrative coordinator, said stars should keep their
political opinions to themselves
as they may discourage voters
from researching candidate platforms.
“There are lots of not wellinformed people that will follow
the decisions of celebrities they
like instead of doing their homework,” Samson said.

Contact Josh Naquin at
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MEMES, from page 11

net exploded with pictures of a
sullen Big Bird looking for work
and cursing Romney. One meme
showed the iconic bird spelling
what could possibly be its last
“letter of the day,” B for Budget
cuts.
ERMAHGERD WORMERN
The second debate brought
on, arguably, the most prolific
one-liners of the campaign season. When asked about gender
inequality in the workplace,
Romney retorted by saying he
had “binders full of women” to
choose from when trying to staff
his governor’s cabinet with female executives. The line instantly became a subject of late-night
punch lines and numerous meme
adaptations, one in particular being the ERMAHGERD girl.
Inappropriate Timing Bill
The 1988 political sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky
and former President Bill Clinton makes him a certified expert
on binders full of women, right?
Well, according to the Internet,
Clinton wants to know more.
Hey Girl, Paul Ryan “Gosling”
The election heated up when
Romney nominated 42-year-old
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as
running mate. Some female voters became more interested in
Paul’s physical attributes than his
view on fiscal policy. The new
election heartthrob was eventu-

How athletes manage
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On Stands November 5th 2012

photos from of knowyourmemes.com

President Barack Obama uttered these four words in July at a rally in Virginia. They
followed him through the election season and turned into viral Internet memes.

ally dubbed Paul Ryan “Gosling,” which launched a series of
remixed “Hey Girl” memes.
Laughing Joe Biden
Viewers of the one and
only vice presidential debate
may have been left wondering
why Vice President Joe Biden
couldn’t stop laughing. The
69-year-old politician grinned,
sneered and repeatedly interrupted his younger counterpart Ryan,
leaving a distasteful impression